1 John 4
Day 9 of 14 · Overcoming Fear
There is no fear in love. No! Love, when perfect, drives out fear, for fear implies punishment, and the man who feels fear has not attained to perfect love.
We love, because God first loved us.
If a man says ‘I love God,’ and yet hates his Brother, he is a liar; for the man who does not love his Brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
CONTEXT
Original word: κόλασιν (kólasis) · penal infliction
REFLECTION
Name the fear you carry today. Then read 1 John 4:18 as if it were written to you.
PRAYER
Jesus, you calmed the storm. Calm my heart today. Amen.
QUESTION
Who could you encourage with this passage?
ONE ACTION TODAY
Take one small brave step you have been avoiding.
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Source
Twentieth Century New Testament. Public domain. Source: CrossWire SWORD module Twenty (converted to USFM; no wording changed). Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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